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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Dynamic memory consumption

In addition to static memory metrics (free, used, swap size, or percentage), there should be dynamic memory usage sensors (metrics such as memory pages/sec, memory paged/unpaged bytes, etc.). These kind of metrics can be used to predict the problem.
almost 2 years ago in Instana 2 Future consideration

One problem, one entry on Issue page via Agent API

If I want to indicate to Instana there is somewhere a problem then there is a possibility to make a custom issue via Agent API (http://localhost:42699/com.instana.plugin.generic.event). We use this facility. There is a custom http(s) protocol moni...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent / API-C 1 Functionality already exists

AWS Fargate agent for PHP Fargate Collector

Instana currently supports following Fargate Collectors https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=agents-aws-fargate-agent. It would be nice if you can also add support for PHP language.
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Agent 1 Not under consideration

We need a force option added to wappman

We are thinking about working with wappman to move our workload to the higher environments. After some testing and figuring out how we can incorporate it into our current way of working, we notice we are missing a "force" option to bypass the warn...
almost 2 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Services

The Ansible Job Output is missing from Ansible Tower backed Services. (ServiceAnsibleTower). In previous versions, the output of the Ansible Tower Job would display in in Services -> My Services -> <service name>. This no longer the ca...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

OS uptime

I would like to have a metric/event for this parameter. The system uptime value can indicate whether the operating system has restarted or not. The easiest way to do this is to check the uptime of the system. If the uptime of the system is less, t...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

NcKL - Omnibus probe rules file support for IPv6

NcKL - Omnibus probe rulesdoes not support Ipv6 at the moment. Several entries like $MOI_Remote = extract($Message, "neighbor ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+) ") are in rules files and needs to accept also Ipv6 addresses. Today more and more equip...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration

Functionality to be able to reorder rows within planning

Functionality to be able to move rows to reorder. Similar to the drop and drag functionality of the columns.
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Missing mount point monitoring

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors mount success with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs of what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM situation: *IF *SCAN KLZ...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Need to monitor existence of Dead Letter Queue by Instana Agent

Dear colleagues, our customer monitors existence of Dead Letter Queue in MQ with Tivoli Monitoring. They seek for transition to Instana, so they're interested in implementation of analogs to what they use in ITM. Below is the example of such ITM s...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 2 Functionality already exists